Adjustable garment.



A. M. SCHNEIDER.

ADJUSTABLE GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 19, 1912.

Patented Aug. 26, 1913.

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ADJUSTABLE GARMENT.

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Specification of hetters Patent.

Patented Aug. 26,1913.

Application filedSeptember 19, 1912. Serial No. 721,222.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDERM. SCHN EI- one, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at New York city, county and State of New York, haveinvented a new and Improved Adjustable Garment, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to a garment of the Class which is adjustable atthe waist such as described in Patent No. 1,009,262 issued to meNovember 2lst,-1911. In that-patent a permanently doubled portion of thewaist band carries one fastening member that cooperateswith a secondfasteningmember carried by a flap which is secured to the waist band andis adapted to be fpassed through a selected aperture thereo By thisconstruction which is well adapted for garments made of silk, muslin orother thin material, four thicknesses of fabric are thus presented atthe point of engagement with the fastening members. With garments madeof heavier material, such as knitted or other underwear, thisquadrupling of the fabric at said point of engagement is howeverobjectionable for the reason that it forms an undesirable bulging of thegarment and renders the fasteners liable to become accidentally opened.The present invention is designed to overcome this objection, theconstruction being such that at the point of engagementwith thefasteners, but three layers of material are encountered so that theaggregate thickness of'the garment is materially diminished, while anaccidental opening of the fasteners is prevented.

1n the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the upper.part of a garment embodying my invention; Fig. 2 a top view thereofwlth the fastener closed; Fig. 3 a perspective view of a modification,

and Fig.4 an inner face View thereof.

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Referring more particularly to Figs. 1 and 2 which show the inventionapplied to a pair of drawers, the numeral 10 represents the Waist bandprovided with shortening means on its right and left sides, suchshortening means being identical in construction.

The shortening means comprise a row'of button holes or slits 11 formedalong portion of the waistband. Directly back of said row, there issecured to the outer side of the waistband by an upright seam 12, arelatively short tab 13, carrying a button or similar male fasteningmember 14, which is normally directly opposite the rearmost button hole11. To the inner side of the waist -band,there is secured by an uprightseam 15, a relatively long tab 16 having a button hole or similar femalefastening member 17, which is adapted to cooperate with button 14. Seam15 is set back from seam 12, a

distance equal to the difference in length between tabs 16, 13, so thatthe front or free ends of the tabs will be alined with each other andthe button hole 17 will be placed directly opposite the button 14.

\Vhen the garment is to assume its maximum width, button 14 is passedthrough the rearinost button hole 11 and also through the button hole 17of tab 16. If the waist measure of the garment is to be shortened, thebutton-holed portion of the waistband is doubled up to the extentdesired and the doubled section is tucked in underneath the longer orinnermosttab 16, after which the button 14-18 passed through thatparticular button hole 11 which has become alincd therewith and alsothrough the button hole 17 of tab 16. In this way the waist band becomesfixed in its shortened condition and will retain its new form even undersevere strain. It will be seen that by the construction described, thedoubled portion of the waistband is tucked in underneath the rearportion of the longer tab 16, while between the front portion of saidtab and the shorter tab 13 but a single thickness of waistband isinterposed. In this way, there are encountered at the point ofengagement with the fasteners but three layers of fabric, so that thethickness of the garment is not unduly increased and that any accidentalopening of the fasteners is effectively obviated.

In Figs. 3 and 4, the invention is shown to be applied to a skirt. Herethe two adjustable sections of the waistband 18 are arranged in closeproximity to each other at the back of the skirt. The two outer andshorter tabs 19 are secured by the upright seams 20 to opposite ends ofthe two rows of apertures 21. The two inner and longer tabs 22 are madeintegral with each other, comprising a single piece of fabric which isstitched to the garment by an upright cent-ral seam 23 and extends somedistance below the waistband to here constitute a reinforcement. Thefastening means carriedby the tabs 22, 19 are shown to be made in theform of conventional cooperating snap buttons 24 and sockets 25, whilethe openings 21 of the waistband are of round form to accommodate thesame.

I claim:

An adjustable garment provided with a waistband having a row ofapertures, a pair of tabs of difl erent lengths secured to oppositesides of said waistband in proximity to said row, the longer tab beingsecured to the waistband back of the shorter tab at a distance, equalingthe difierence in the length between the tabs, a fastening member on oneof said tabs which is adapted to be projected through one of saidapertures,

and a cooperating fastening member on the other tab, theapertured'waistband section being adapted to be doubled between the longtab and the waistband of single thickness that extends between thepoints of attachment of the lon 'and short tabs to said waistband, whilet e garment is of but triple thickness at the points of engagement withthe fastening members.

HENRY LICHTENBERG, FRANK v. Bmasrm.

